Re: [PATCH v3] packfile: freshen the mtime of packfile by configuration

Taylor Blau [off-list ref] writes:

Hmm. I'm still quite unconvinced that we should be taking this direction
without better motivation. We talked about your assumption that NFS
seems to be invalidating the block cache when updating the inodes that
point at those blocks, but I don't recall seeing further evidence.

Me neither.  Not touching the pack and not updating the "most
recently used" time of individual objects smells like a recipe
for repository corruption.

My opinion is that it is not, and that the bizarre caching behavior you
are seeing is out of Git's control.